South African Airways (SAA) has cancelled its scheduled Thursday flight to and from Mauritius because of a tropical cyclone. The airline said the flight has fallen foul of precautions being taken in Mauritius in advance of the expected arrival there of Cyclone Hennie. SAA said the island’s international airport has been closed for the day.
The acting CEO of the Border Cricket Board, Greg Hayes, and Warriors coach Mickey Arthur dropped a bombshell when they announced on Wednesday that Protea express bowler Monde Zondeki has decided to pursue his career with the Western Province-Boland franchise from next summer. ”He goes with our blessing,” Hayes said.
South Africa’s mining industry looked set for further disruption on Wednesday as more than 20 000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers planned to down tools at Harmony’s Virginia, Free State, mine. This follows the impending closure of Durban Roodepoort Deep’s North West operations, which will cost 6 000 jobs.
Manning Rangers’ woes continued when they were beaten 1-0 by a 10-man Supersport United in their Castle Premiership encounter played at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. Supersport finished the game a man down following a red card given to Edward Williams after his second bookable offence in the 50th minute.
The New South Wales Waratahs may be unbeaten after a month’s Super 12 rugby but the Canterbury Crusaders are the favourites with bookmakers to win their sixth southern-hemisphere provincial crown. The Waratahs have another chance to give their title claims more credibility against South Africa’s Northern Bulls in Sydney on Saturday.
Good quality refurbished PCs can be a viable technology choice — and sometimes even preferable to lower-quality new PCs. That’s one of the key findings of a total cost of ownership study into new and refurbished PCs by South African-based research consultancy Open Research.
It’s time for the yearly Oppikoppi Easter music blast, this time quaintly titled the Dust on My Meerkat festival. The line-up includes a host of excellent local acts, as well as guest Canadian singer Tal Bachman, who spoke to Riaan Wolmarans.
Global banking group Barclays is expecting the rand to strengthen again to below R6 per dollar in the coming months and bond yields to recover on the back of continued strong commodity prices, low inflation and lower interest rates in 2005, according to a recent research report by Barclays Capital.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said the situation in Côte d’Ivoire is in danger of spinning ”out of control” if militias in the divided African nation are not controlled. ”The mobilisation of militia-type groups is increasing nationwide,” Annan said in a report to the UN Security Council.
Companies guilty of corrupt practices will in future be blacklisted under resolutions adopted at the second anti-corruption conference in Pretoria on Wednesday. The conference also resolved to strengthen legislation to protect whistle-blowers and the capacity of law-enforcement agencies to seize assets obtained through elicit or corrupt means.